Raised and educated in greater Los Angeles, Dr. Apt graduated from Loyola University and completed medical school at UC Irvine. After finishing ophthalmology training at the Oschner Foundation in New Orleans, he was awarded two fellowships in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Albany Medical Center in New York, and the University of Toronto where he studied the delicate subspecialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids. 

Dr Apt keeps up with the newest and latest technologies available in cataract and intraocular lens implantation, refractive (LASIK) surgery, as well as plastic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids.  He is an Assistant Professor at the Jules Stein Eye Institute (UCLA) and the Doheny Eye Institute (USC), where he shares his knowledge with doctors in training.  He has lectured nationally and internationally on reconstructive and refractive surgery.  His offices are located in Century City, California.